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A new version 0.4 of rah_external_output released. Update comes with a bug fix. Changelog:

• Fixed forgotten insert query escaping.

Change is as big as one word, doSlash. Somehow code missed it. I strongly recommend updating before using saving any output with the plugin’s editor.

More info and downloads

molly wrote:

FireFusion wrote:

Great this is very useful.
Am using it to output my iCal feed and slideshow XML (rather then using up more sections).

FireFusion, I would love to know more about this if you have the time. I am trying to output content from a Google calendar into this page: www.beerrun.com/test. Used an rss feed program, but that only outputs events that already happened, not future events.

I use this plus smd_calendar

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
X-WR-CALNAME:<txp:site_name /> Calendar
PRODID:-//Apple Computer, Inc//iCal 1.5//EN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London
<txp:smd_article_event time="future" limit="1000" section="courses" stepfield="custom_1" skipfield="custom_2" extrafield="custom_3">

BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:<txp:posted format="%Y%m%dT%H%M%S" />
DTEND:<txp:posted format="%Y%m%d" /><txp:expires format="T%H%M%S" />
SUMMARY:<txp:title />

END:VEVENT
</txp:smd_article_event>
END:VCALENDAR

1. Done
2. Done
3. Nope

/*
	adi_gps - Extract GET & POST variables

	Written by Adi Gilbert

	Released under the GNU General Public License

	Version history:
	0.1		- initial release

*/

function adi_gps($atts) {

	extract(lAtts(array(
		'name'			=> '',	// a single GET/POST var
		'new'			=> '',	// new variable name
		'txpvar'		=> '1',	// set as a TXP variable or not
		'post'			=> '0',	// extract POST vars or not
		'quiet'			=> '0',	// return value or not
		'global'		=> '1', // make vars global or not
		'escape'		=> '',	// escape HTML entities or not
		'decode'		=> '0',	// perform a urldecode or not
		'list'			=> '0', // list variable names and values
		'debug'			=> '0',
	), $atts));

	if ($name == '') { // no single var specified, so all vars extracted
		$quiet = 1; // force quiet mode
		$new = ''; // disable var rename
		$get_list = array_keys($_GET);
		$post ?
			$post_list = array_keys($_POST) : $post_list = array();
		$name_list = array_merge($get_list,$post_list);
	}
	else
		$name_list[] = $name;

	$debug_list = 'adi_gps variables';
	foreach ($name_list as $index => $name) {
		$value = gps($name); // extract value
		if ($decode) // convert %chars
			$value = urldecode($value);
		if ($escape == 'html') // encode chars (e.g. ampersand becomes &)
			$value = htmlentities($value);
		if ($new) // rename var (single var mode only)
			$name = $new;
		if ($txpvar) // create TXP variable
			parse('<txp:variable name="'.$name.'" value="'.$value.'"/>');
		if ($global) // make the variable global
			$GLOBALS[$name] = $value;
		if ($list)
			$debug_list .= ":$name=$value";
	}

	if ($debug) {
		echo 'SUPPLIED ATTRIBUTES:<br/>';
		dmp($atts);
		echo "GET VARS:<br/>";
		dmp($_GET);
		echo "POST VARS:<br/>";
		dmp($_POST);
		echo "ADI_GPS VAR LIST:<br/>";
		dmp($name_list);
		echo "ALL TXP VARS:<br/>";
		dmp($GLOBALS['variable']);
	}

	if ($list)
		return $debug_list.'<br/>';
	else
		if ($quiet) // don't report value
			return '';
		else // return value
			return $value;
}

:)

Last edited by FireFusion (2009-07-05 20:02:16)

johnstephens wrote:

This is an awesome plugin. One warning: External output doesn’t work if your site’s production status is set to “Debugging”. I just spent 45 minutes trying to chase down a non-existent js bug or plugin collision with the site in “Debugging”— when I switched it to “Testing” or “Live” it worked perfectly again (this occurred in Textpattern 4.0.8).

If you use the plugin, you might get some “errors” specially in the Debugging mode. This is caused by the fact that the plugin outputs the content in a non section/any context. All plugins/code/tags that hook or do something that requires section or something similiar, might cause problems.

What is the error message?

Last edited by Gocom (2009-08-07 23:13:15)

Bump! Can anyway help with my previous post? Would really like to use this.
Thanks muchly.